> Is it tho? I get paid more these days to write less code. Is it dumb to be paid more/do more, have more oversight and deal less with the minutia?

I do think that what people are being paid might get adjusted to whatever is happening.

Firstly off-shores, then now Tech companies have convenient response to lay off people and they genuinely believe that companies can be 5-10x shorter with AI and 90% of code will be written by AI.

They then push it on engineers and some adopt, some don't. It becomes a goodhart's law and people just start spending tokens to look good too and just spearhead using AI because hey 1) the corporate is recommending you to do this and then 2) the points you talked about.

The AI bill blows up (Cloudflare spends 5 million $ per month probably more in AI bills iirc) and with all of these, the company fires people off.

The amount of software engineers laid off all then try to create another AI tool (...using AI) or try to overcompete when the job market is at one of its all time low. Combine this with the overall trillion dollar and more of US stock market which is attached to the AI bubble.

I do think that you are paying a price in all of this, I feel like job insecurity is at an all time high, people are just scared of losing jobs from my understanding within this career. Some are closer to retirement than others but that's about it.

I think that nobody is that happy to be honest, the software engineer is worried about his job, the CEO is worried about being replaced or his product replaced by AI, the AI company is worried about how it would be profitable in first place, the investors are worried if they got into a bubble, the government is worried about all these people and other so distractions (think UFO files for example) and wars are happening and its successfully diverting our attention from real issues.

I don't know but I think that we are all paying a price and I say this as I sometimes feel the most over-empowered by AI, (like young guy in his teens) but I just feel like we lost something more critical along the way. We lost some senses of our humanity and peace as we are embedding this technology and just have people who are only thinking about it 24/7. I have to be honest but I do sometimes feel like I would've fared off okay without the AI thing too and I don't care about my personal gains so much sometimes but I do think that the world would've probably been net positive if AI's plateaued or were never created.